California Court of Appeal

Where defendant did not know that a murder victim was pregnant, and pregnancy was not apparent, no inference of implied malice exists sufficient to sustain a second degree fetal murder conviction.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/27/2002
• Published 11/27/2002

Judges

• REARDON, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Joseph Shipp, Sebastapol, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Ronald A. Bass, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Eric D. Share, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Catherine A. McBrien, Deputy Attorney General, for respondent.